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Written in red and white: a guide to choosing the right type of wine
Choosing the right wine is a mark of gastronomic sophistication, albeit a skill that can take many years to perfect. There comes a time when everyone needs some rules to fall back on, especially when trying to inspire dinner party guests, improve one’s palette, or stretch a small amount of wine knowledge to its limit…
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Discover the Pfalz Wine Region
A Wine Region containing the World’s Largest Wine Barrel and the World’s Oldest Bottle of Wine, read on to learn more about this fascinating region. Pfalz covers 23,554 hectares (58,178 acres) of vineyards in Germany, it runs from the south of the German city, worms to the French border of Alsace, incorporating the Rhine plain,…
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The Difference Between Champagne and Sparkling Wine
It’s your friend’s birthday, you got a great wine cooler sleeve and all you need to do now is put a bottle in. You check out the selection at the local store and you’re overwhelmed. Do you choose Champagne or sparkling wine? What is even the difference? To put it simply, Champagne is sparkling wine,…
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Battle of The Bubbles – Pizzaland
Battle of The Bubbles – English Fizz vs Champagne vs Cava vs Trento DOC An epic battle is about to take place, one of cosmic proportions, these fine examples of Sparkling Wines have been chosen to represent their country and battle it out over which pairs best with a Pizza. After looking through the internet…
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Valentine’s Day Fizz
February 14th, the day to celebrate love by sharing a great bottle of fizz with your special someone. When choosing a bottle of bubbly for the two of you to enjoy, why not try something different, maybe something from Austria or Italy, Spain or SLOVEnia, the choice is yours, don’t limit yourself from what you…
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The Best of Italian Sparklers
Just today someone asked me what if I had to choose just one country to drink wine from and of course, my answer was, as always, Italy. It is not a difficult answer today for me as it comes with having made lots of painstaking sacrifices in order to cut my wine preferences to just…
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A Spanish Sparkling Wine with over 600 Years of History – Llopart
The production of wine has a long and sometimes mysterious history with its birthplace somewhat debated though, Georgia from c. 6000 BC is referenced as being the first recorded location for the practice of turning grapes into wine! History of Cava / Spanish Sparkling Wine “The roots of the Cava industry can be traced back…
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Henkell Freixenet Buys Bolney Wine Estate
Henkell Freixenet’s entry into the emerging, high-growth English sparkling wine segment was through the acquisition of Bolney Wine Estate English sparkling wine and wine cellar based near Brighton, Sussex on the 14th of January. English sparkling wine, considered by some experts as ‘the new Champagne’, is witnessing exponential growth. Bolney Wine Estate was founded in…
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Can I Buy Alcohol Free Champagne?
If you go searching on the likes of Google (can I buy alcohol free Champagne) then you will confidently say that you can as a total of 135 million search results are delivered and many positively stating options for non-alcoholic Champagne. So yes, alcohol free Champagne does exist right? Though if we explore the results…
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